Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said that lack of proper sanitation facilities for girls in the schools was the reason behind their leaving the education midway and attacked Congress for "ignoring" the issue in the last 60 years.
"When the girl student reaches the age where she realises this (lack of female toilets in the school) she leaves her education midway. As they leave their education midway they remain uneducated.
"Our daughters must also get equal chance to quality education," Prime Minister Modi said while addressing an election rally here today in support of party candidates.
Criticising opposition parties for targeting him for giving priority to "minor issues", Modi said that, he gives priority to the issues which he feels were ignored for the past 60 years.
"They ignored these issues for the past 60 years and that is why the country suffered.
"After 60 years of independence there should have been separate toilets for girl students in every school. But for the past 60 years they could not provide separate toilets to girls and as result the female students had to leave their education midway," Modi said.
He said that the lack of proper sanitation at every household was a cause of concern that he wanted to address.
"Our daughters and sisters face such a humiliation when they have to go out, they wait for the dark for this purpose as they have to go in the open. They too have a right to self-respect, every household should get a toilet.
"They (Congress) had no time for this, but this is my mission to provide this facility to our women," Modi said.
The Prime Minister said that his government was committed to provide the people of the state a chance of quality education and generate employment avenues for the youth of the state.
"I don't want the children to leave their elderly parents and move outside in search of jobs, the BJP government will be committed to provide education avenues to the youth of the state," Modi said.
